Right now Cedric McMillan sits in his hotel room here in Rio De Janeiro, shredded, covered in pro-tan, starving, and extremely confused. He’s confused because he knows instead of winning the inaugural Arnold Brazil, like just about everyone and their mama predicted, he’ll be somewhere stuffing his drawn-in and depleted face thinking, “Why me?”, all because he missed the Athletes Meeting today.

Today I received some very sad news from multiple sources regarding former IFBB professional bodybuilder Mat Duvall, who apparently was found dead in his bathroom. Matt was only 40 years old. At this point, the cause of his death is a mystery but, as the details come in, we’ll keep the site updated.

As I was leaving the inaugural Sheru Classic in Mumbai, India last year in September of 2011, I felt very sad to leave. With any first year professional bodybuilding show, no matter how successful it is, there are no guarantees the show will continue. The fact that I wasn't 100% sure I'd be returning to this magical country was upsetting in a strange way. I felt almost like an astronaut who has an opportunity to visit the moon or some distant planet and might never get to return. So you can imagine my joy when I received a phone call this year from promotor Sheru Aangrish. Not only did Sheru tell me that he would like me back in India (this time in New Delhi), but he was doing it bigger in 2013. Way bigger!]]>

RxMuscle’s very own, Chris Aceto, has made a comeback from stage 3 melanoma to the leading contest prep coach in the business. This year, Chris has 2 guys making their Olympia debut, and two guys vying for the 212 Olympia title. I wanted to give you guys a little preview of Team Technician, and let Chris tell you a little bit about each of his guys.]]>

How many times have you been driving down the highway are you feel your eyes slowly closing. . . unintentionally drifting off to sleep at the most inopportune moment. . . only to wake up with your wheels crossing over the white line; thumping out of control over safety speed bumps. It happened today to IFBB Pro Todd Jewell; only he didn’t wake up for the speed bumps. A collision with a huge 25-foot tall rock wall is what awakened Todd.]]>

Have you ever heard the saying,”If he didn’t have bad luck, he’d have no luck at all.”? It seems like that saying was specifically written for IFBB Pro Victor Martinez. Today, I was able to confirm that the former Arnold Classic Champion was seriously injured during a photo shoot in Mexico.]]>

The Super Bowl of bodybuilding, The Mr. Olympia, will be without one of it’s great champions this year. Earlier this past weekend I heard the rumor that the 3x 202 Mr. Olympia Kevin English wasn’t competing in our sport’s premier contest. This is big news, so over the past few days I have verified this story with many people, and now I am certain we won’t be seeing Kevin on the Olympia stage in 2012.]]>

At almost every National level show I have been to this year, I hear someone say that the Men’s Physique Division is taking over the men’s side of the sport. If you are a numbers guy, then this sentiment makes sense. Since the division’s inception local and national level shows regularly have several times more MPD competitor than bodybuilders. The main difference I have seen to prove that bodybuilding is still safe is the lack of money in the MPD. Smaller prize money, less contracts, and the contracts that are out there are FAR less lucrative. Till now.]]>

On June 23rd, 2011, I had 8x Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman on my radio show, Access Bodybuilding, to talk about his new company, Ronnie Coleman Signature Series. When Ronnie was on the show he told about his company’s plan to start outside the United States, and at the time, I wondered how it would all turn out. Two days ago I toured the new Florida Ronnie Coleman Signature Series headquarters and was blown away by facility.]]>